good morning i'm laura bush and this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort the brutality against women. and the regime. the taliban. across much of the country and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing and. the bush administration latched on to the issue of the oppression of women now women were oppressed a long time and you never heard anybody talk about it when the u.s.

wanted to invade. and women are no longer imprisoned in their home they can listen to music and teach their daughters. the rights and dignity of women. talking to the whole country. can liberate their people. certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun. unfortunately now that there is a permanent war. in there once again imprisoned by the. going backwards some wants. i mean i was married when i was fourteen years old now

i have six children by our start that is twenty four my marriage was like like many at that marriage it wasn't forced marriages but it was arranged marriages i used to say that accidentally has that that's a good match is what it's supposed to be and he really he believes woman strike by itself. this is a judge in the us and head out that has been has been stopped the stopped by by by knife because she has a right you and i democrats young generation but want to play her all and today this command dust off a smile haunt. wanted criminal minds and the rest of afghanistan and his puppet of you know as well and and then they beat a knife to a stop not poor the women in the thread due to the shaky situation within the

country many of them a journalist it's sad and many of them have been assassinated and therefore it has paid for too high a price to act the us woman who has been killed. in kandahar my john and kandahar. and nadia and jim and head off gone much twenty five fearful journalists and couple . there are some end to violence something that didn't exist before unfortunately when the beating the daily and the public mosque a number of digits neda came together and then decided me. because. i went to that province and create the show and so now woman could go that way and have actually become something. she could provide a huge but woman so become a controller or a woman and i would probably say if you follow. you know what you have been

a good place to ask if you code that. you will do a good job with a god. and right now one of the things we can do is pressure. our government for afghan women to be at the table with any discussions about reconciliation any discussions around re incorporating the taliban back into the government because we believe. cannot truly prosper without the participation its population and construction.

only affected social change. can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women and now for me i try to for. college i mean leadership and afghanistan to teach women be the leaders of the future. we should be going in and provide economic opportunities educational opportunities but it's all too early for the afghan people to determine how their

social progress is going to proceed. rights aren't given they have to be taken. you have asked me if men give women the right to drive a car to join the army to fight with these other rights that must be taken by a woman who has to drive and get a degree. boy or women can do the same as men. because women are capable john but the trick though these are not rights that men give us but rights that we have to take. the horses begin so we need to work with but the man to teach them and problem them that that is their right. because of that decision making. men are the power. man who can make change make conductance so if you don't have to work with me so we don't

have boys as this is if you go what woman is too good to like me tonight because you just know what i mean specific reason for. going to spawn is not like another. country to have discord leaks if you encourage a woman far more about what rights and tell her that you have that's your right to have access to education to go to school and it's going to look at it just in front of her door the husband doesn't allow to. have been allowed to she could enjoy freedom it gets for me some of it. then don't go to school or university it's coming up women because could produce could. it's a little bit like going out into the villages to convince people with regard to birth control what you've really got to do is you've got to get local people local religious leaders and local social workers etc who are going to go out you can have

westerners going now and you can have westerners who are have a high profile. in that country because they deal with when the local people go out the local people say you are not here as ask or as pakistanis are is in the knees and you are here because these american christian groups you see are trying to impose on us a social policy that we don't believe in in order to make us weaker you know so we'll have smaller families you know so we won't be as strong as we can be.

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education about sexual health family planning things that you couldn't do in the time of the taliban when they were all sitting in the time of the taliban you couldn't even leave your house. to the cows on. you after you think you can call this a dog in the world. is seven years and descended from people i think. this is a dog does that mean when every day and warm and hospitable and the biz and talk about the family for names to the midst of war to me did i will shellings it's value is not each ivy programs look so every day.

the films that i produce some mainly about women's rights. should i tell stories about the problems that afghan women face in their lives when i do i make different types of films artistic educative documentaries also some adverts. in reality what i would like to do is work as much as possible for my country for my people because my people have many needs for this reason i also make educated films films that can give them positive messages. as

a big. boy because she was famous. you know i had seen her work i knew who she was and personality when i met her i was immediately taken by her character her work her personality. so we decided to get married as i was also in was the first head. but. when but i can not looking at that time. in two thousand and two when. i decided. i must make them.

it was feeling so it was difficult for her because nor did it nor you are no family to. accept to have a doctor or have a wife or be activists to myself because they don't like. to be. in movie and seen the woman one year i searched for. the office house but now. i have the rights to produce walk bike films strike the ball to the prison and other. want to take the exhibition that you see here has fifty exhibits drawn by seven different artists six of these artists are men and one is a woman. again. i'm not sure i've been drawing carey catchier support ten years i'm not an artist i have

a degree in political sciences but i draw in relation to political topics these particular drawings refer to the current political situations. it's nothing. more than almost any of them even in afghanistan that we didn't want to hear. it's true. it's. been another six months than it was afghanistan has never had a caricature exit bishan before. it's the first time because obviously it is about works of critical said tire. and unfortunately the ability to accept criticism here

in. afghanistan most of all in the political field has notably decreased. computer to. eight years right now we have a lot of woman and favorite students which is true but noticed that we have a family of actor and activist and for me we have fair male musician. farewell sculpture. that's. moving ahead. my name is maria bashir and i'm the chief prosecutor of the herat province. i've had the position for about four years. and it's the first time in the history

of ghana system that irresponsibility like this. has been given to her for. that matter if you ask me if i'm happy to be born a woman then i'll say yes even if i have to face many problems even if the situation is difficult and it takes a lot of effort in such a traditional society above all be no woman is being conscious of your own rights. my job is to follow criminals in the province and in fifteen districts of. the departments that i manage has one hundred employees. of these one hundred employees down there are women and the rest are all men i'm legally responsible i'm the one that coordinates and checks the work so they have to answer to me became a following through with their responsibilities and taking orders from. so it's not

easy to fool. understand the courage of these women who put themselves out there and do their best every day. be paid as i want to work hard and however. yeah i want to head. at them my. i like it. i live in the given my role and the responsibility that i have in my jump my life is in danger because i have to deal with criminals day off to date. and to and to government groups it is unacceptable that a woman has such a responsible position. for this reason i'm in danger and i have to always with an ass court and an armored car. unfortunately

things have not changed very much for afghan women when you think of all the blood that has been spilled from two thousand i don't want to now be able a bit and a view of our work but we achieved. in security. but to be achieved. poverty. one of the ways you can judge how the status of women is is looking at the issue of maternal mortality how many women die in childbirth. one at a five afghan women died in childbirth and think it's one of the highest rates in the entire world it was under the taliban and it continues now. this is the picture of for the woman in nineteen. they're young girls nine hundred

sixty so one when they go. to school. and they see how they are. but even with the car they wish they were. going to turn it on they condition the women has been one of the reasons for military intervention in the country which you so much there are many women but the majority are women who have a political role many of them are linked to fundamentalist groups so. there is a high number of women in the afghan parliament. twenty eight percent are women but many of these twenty eight percent belong to the norm. so about their women it's important delegates or appointed by the warlords or seniority to send some of their women into government. and for today's women's point of view i work in the news editing office of radio most day and i

present a show for women transmitted by the radio station our program talks about different subjects mostly accounts on the condition of women in herat and their activities. are i started working when i was nine years old fifty years my work has been to weave carpets oh no hope i have lived alone for six years i have three children two girls and one boy this is a particularly difficult period for us but that let's talk about the development of women in society i have complete is a number of cinema to graphic projects. because we have money to be a station money to us. t.v. station and argue official and also a newspaper. or magazine. monthly. we have money structures and also programmes about women growth of oklahoma growth ok

. why women and people know about their rights now that we are in we had more been than nine hundred which came on the commission in reading this that it is all the way in fragments woman there are problems that women face not only in hair out but in all of afghanistan. other problems are many for example in families they are victims of violence perpetrated by their fathers husbands and brothers rape cases is historic i'm not going to stop these damn mistake while it is four years old maybe three and a half years old babies five year old babies twelve years old girl fourteen years old girl take it right. normally you. injure their wife's that has been done to company them to hospitals their companies by the member of their families you know and afghanistan beating your wife beating your

family beating your children isn't considered a crime. that the police reports mainly regard physical violence. however i believe the majority of women i can say ninety nine percent suffers psychological violence but it isn't trip or to. the other day for example i saw a fifteen year old girl who was the second wife of a fifty five year old man. because here ninety nine point nine percent of all marriages are arranged. cheater she told us that from the day she had my husband he has never taken care of her that he has only beaten her and that she can't make any decisions at all she was sick and she told us my husband doesn't want me to get better more. from

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